The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 92: Second Chance

Ezra

"Get him loaded up," I say to my warriors.

"You'll pay for this, you f***g p**k. You'll pay for this!" Owen screams at me.

"Shut the f***k up before I break your nose again," I snarl at him. The man never shuts his f**g mouth. Some days I handle it better than others, but I'm heading to Hunter and Sophie's pack today. Being there is hard for me making me less tolerant of Owen's s**.

I sigh, watching my warriors drag Owen into the back of a windowless van, locking him in with silver handcuffs and leg restraints. "You'll regret this!" Owen screams at me again.

"Your pack is gone, half of them killed on Hunter and Sophie's pack lands. The rest, I've taken over. You can choose to shut your mouth and take your death like a man, or I'll shove a silver- soaked cloth into your mouth until we get to their pack. You're lucky I don't wrap your d*k in one after what you did to that innocent girl. I'm not listening to your s**t the entire drive, so shut your f*g mouth or pay the price, your choice," I snarl, getting into his face.

When he doesn't respond, I turn and nod to my warriors to close the doors.

"You okay, Alpha?" my Beta, Jake, asks me.

"Yeah. I just want to get this over with and get home. You need to get back to our new pack. You think Will's got things under control for now?" I ask him, referencing our G**a.

"There's barely anyone there, and we've sent a decent

contingent of warriors. Plus, Alpha Hunter's pack is close to that one; so if there's trouble, he'll call you."

I nod. Jake had been managing Owen's old pack, but with me leaving and the other Alphas still out there threatening war, I didn't want to leave my pack in the hands of my G**a. It's not that I don't trust him. I just know that Jake is the stronger leader.

"If you need anything, call me."

"We'll be fine, Alpha. It's you I'm worried about," he says quietly.

Being around Hunter was never easy after his sister, my mate, killed herself and our pup. I knew she hated how she was claimed, had been so traumatized by it that it had taken me years to finally put a pup in her. And then she'd gone without me to find out that we were having a girl. I didn't find out until after I'd found my mate's broken body and laid her body to rest, the pack and I grieving the huge loss of our Luna and my mate.

The thought of her broken body still haunts me at night when I'm alone, the cold, empty bed a constant reminder of what I had and lost.

I

So, yeah, it was always hard to see Hunter after that. He never blamed me, but I blamed myself. I blamed myself for losing her, for not being everything that she needed me to be for her. And 12.35%

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exactly what I could have had with Diana, if I'd been a stronger man, a stronger Alpha, if I'd been the man she deserved. I didn't know it could hurt worse to see Hunter, but it

so beautiful, with a smile that lit up a room. I didn't see it much. after I marked her, but occasionally, I'd catch her smiling at a pup or every once in a great while, I'd

off and turning right back around and going home. I'll suck it up. In some ways, I crave Diana's ghost that lives as much in the halls of this pack as it does in mine. Hunter's pack was her home

pull into the guard gate at Alpha

you let Alpha Hunter know that Alpha Ezra

guard gate and the pack. Obviously, "Brooklyn is well loved around here. "Sure

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they be This protective of them? Somehow, I don't think so, and while Brooklyn is a beautiful sweet girl think it has more to do with Hunter and Sophie's leadership than the girl herself. Something for me to think about. I may not have a Luna, a heart for my pack, but I need to work to have better cohesion between my

air. I don't remember that scent from the last time I was here, and I would

me

Ezra," Hunter says, walking up to

being formal today?"

we were at one time, when Diana was alive. But I had distanced myself from him after that. Maybe it's

watching me and waiting "We should

say.

across his face before a smile begins. "I'd like that. I'd like it a

I," I say,

of the van where Owen has begun banging, I turn to Hunter. "Did you plant jasmine

of whiff of it

at the van. "Has he been like

he

van.

obscenities at

us.

his nose?"

of times. He truly doesn't know when to shut up," I tell him and watch as Hunter

the **k up or I'll let my warriors go at you until it's time to kill you. Believe me when I tell you, they'd love nothing more than to torture you and hear you scream," Hunter

kick him. in the gut multiple times before they

would love nothing more than to have a go at him. After Koden attacked, Brooklyn tirelessly stitched up their injuries if they weren't too severe. Every one of them has taken up